18th century

Samuel Johnson

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Voltaire

Adam Smith

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Pierre Beaumarchais

Thomas Paine

Edmund Burke

David Hume

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

Montesquieu

Jane Austen

Antoine Lavoisier

Denis Diderot

John Locke

Hans Christian Ørsted

Caroline Herschel

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Jeremy Bentham

Benjamin Franklin

Pierre de Marivaux

Mary Wollstonecraft

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Isaac Newton

Georges Cuvier

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Carl Linnaeus

Immanuel Kant

Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Schiller

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

Jean-Jacques Rousseau